Northstar Vale you are my friend

An unassuming nod.  "I once was a very ... adamant strider. My lust for wandering could not so easily be quelled."  Not the fangs of those familiar to her had been enough to sway her; nor, even, that sword in the sky, she thinks.  "But, now ..."  Now, she had again found reason to stay; now, it was not only he who held a place within her stricken heart. There were many; many, and more of them — and yet, there is still a foolish flutter as Bhediya proposes some endeavor north-and-south.

She would not deny this ... nor her curiosity as to the settlement further ahead of the Court.

"A day we will make of it, then,"  echoing, "perhaps when mine come to settle themselves more, and find some routine in each day of their living."  When things were more surer, and matters had been met out.